linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] tools/lib/traceevent: Separate out tep_strerror() for strerror

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Message-ID: <20181008172710.GN3541@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:27:10 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@...il.com>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] tools/lib/traceevent: Separate out tep_strerror() for
 strerror_r() issues

Em Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:18:16PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> 
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> While working on having PowerTop use libtracevent as a shared object
> library, Tzvetomir hit "str_error_r not defined". This was added by commit
> c3cec9e68f12d ("tools lib traceevent: Use str_error_r()") because
> strerror_r() has two definitions, where one is GNU specific, and the other
> is XSI complient. The strerror_r() is in a wrapper str_error_r() to keep the
> code from having to worry about which compiler is being used.
> 
> The problem is that str_error_r() is external to libtraceevent, and not part
> of the library. If it is used as a shared object then the tools using it
> will need to define that function. I do not want that function defined in
> libtraceevent itself, as it is out of scope for that library.
> 
> As there's only a single instance of this call, and its in the traceevent
> library's own tep_strerror() function, we can copy what was done in perf,
> and create yet another external file that undefs _GNU_SOURCE to use the more
> portable version of the function. We don't need to worry about the errors
> that strerror_r() returns. If the buffer isn't big enough, we simply
> truncate it.

Thanks, applied, replacing the previous version since this is still not
in tip.

- Arnaldo