linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] tracing: add error

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:10:44 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tracing: add error_report trace points

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:16:54 +0100
Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:

> +DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(error_report_template,
> +		    TP_PROTO(const char *error_detector, unsigned long id),

Instead of having a random string, as this should be used by a small finite
set of subsystems, why not make the above into an enum?

> +		    TP_ARGS(error_detector, id),
> +		    TP_STRUCT__entry(__field(const char *, error_detector)
> +					     __field(unsigned long, id)),
> +		    TP_fast_assign(__entry->error_detector = error_detector;
> +				   __entry->id = id;),
> +		    TP_printk("[%s] %lx", __entry->error_detector,

Then the [%s] portion of this could also be just a __print_symbolic().

-- Steve

> +			      __entry->id));
> +
> +/**