linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Handle alloc

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:30:35 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Handle alloc_arg failure

Hi Steve,

2012-09-19 (수), 08:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt:
> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 21:26 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Yeah, I agree.  But I wanted to add a bit more helpful (to developers)
> > info - function name and line number - rather than just "not enough
> > memory" message.  Maybe we could change do_warning to emit such info
> > automatically.
> 
> But these only fail if you run out of memory for the tool. In that case,
> I don't think it's that important which allocation failed.

Okay, I'll send v2 tomorrow according to Ingo's suggestion.

Thanks,
Namhyung


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