linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v1 15/15] perf: export tracepoint events via sysfs: mac80211

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Message-ID: <20100722130700.GA4800@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:07:00 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"eranian@...il.com" <eranian@...il.com>,
	"Gary.Mohr@...l.com" <Gary.Mohr@...l.com>,
	"arjan@...ux.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@...ibm.com>,
	Carl Love <carll@...ibm.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v1 15/15] perf: export tracepoint events via sysfs:
 mac80211


* Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:18 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > mac80211 tracepoint events are exported like below,
> > 
> > /sys/class/ieee80211/events/
> > |-- api_beacon_loss
> > |   |-- config
> > |   |-- type
> > ....
> > ....
> > |-- drv_add_interface
> > |   |-- config
> > |   |-- type
> > ....
> > ....
> > |-- stop_queue
> > |   |-- config
> > |   |-- type
> > |-- wake_queue
> > |   |-- config
> > |   |-- type
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/class.c |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
> > index 8e231d0..57ada53 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/class.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/class.c
> > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >  #include <linux/genhd.h>
> >  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> > +#include <linux/perf_event.h>
> >  #include "base.h"
> >  
> >  #define to_class_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct class_attribute, attr)
> > @@ -160,6 +161,14 @@ static void klist_class_dev_put(struct klist_node *n)
> >  	put_device(dev);
> >  }
> >  
> > +extern struct class ieee80211_class;
> > +
> > +static void class_sys_add_tp(struct kobject *class_kobj, struct class *cls)
> > +{
> > +	if (cls == &ieee80211_class)
> > +		perf_sys_add_tp(class_kobj, "mac80211");
> > +}
> > +
> 
> Ick, what a bad hack! [...]

Yeah, putting driver specific code into generic code for a prototype is OK but 
not acceptable as an end result.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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