linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] tools lib traceevent: Add WARN and WARN

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:38:05 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] tools lib traceevent: Add WARN and WARN_ONCE macros

Hi Arnaldo,

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:07:47 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:00:08PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
>> They're copied from the perf code and will be used to print error
>> message during trace_seq_printf() and friends.
>> 
>> Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
>
> We could take this opportunity and come up with
> tools/lib/{bug,compiler}.h, matching the files in include/linux/ where
> those helpers come from, no?

Hmm.. maybe under tools/include/ ?

>
> Then make both tools/perf/ and tools/lib/traceevent/ use it, instead of
> creating the third copy (kernel proper, perf, libtraceevent).

Okay.

>
> Then, does anybody know why likely/unlikely is guarded inside __KERNEL__
> in include/linux/compiler.h?

IIUC it's because of BRANCH_PROFILING..


> I think the best thing would be for us to just use:
>
> #include <linux/compiler.h> 
>
> just like kernel code and be done with it :-\

Yeah, but it seems to require some modifications.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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