linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] tools lib traceevent: Add state member to struct trace

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Message-ID: <52CB6B1B.4050705@lge.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:48:59 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tools lib traceevent: Add state member to struct
 trace_seq

Hi Steve and Jiri,

2014-01-06 PM 11:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:38:28 +0100
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> I just thought that it's not so important to print message so keeps the
>>> error internally until it gets printed.  But I can be wrong as usual...
>>
>> I think that if she manages to get one of those errors
>> the perf would fail soon anyway.. so it feels better
>> to print it out immediately.
>
> Yeah, using a trace_seq after it has been destroyed is a critical
> failure, and a major bug. A print to the user console should not be a
> problem here. And actually, crashing is not that bad either, as glibc
> does the same with using free() of a freed pointer.
>
> But as this error is major, an unwanted print is minor.

OK, I'll add the WARN_ONCE in the TRACE_SEQ_CHECK then.

Thanks,
Namhyung

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