linux-kernel - Re: Files in include/trace/events

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Date:   Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:57:57 +0000
From:   Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Files in include/trace/events



> On Nov 12, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> I was just looking over some files in include/trace/events/ and noticed
> that there's sunrpc_base.h, fs.h and nfs.h that are not event files.
> 
> The include/trace/events/ directory should only hold files that are to
> create events, not headers that hold helper functions.
> 
> Can you please move them out of include/trace/events/ as that directory
> is "special" in the creation of events.
> 
> Perhaps we could create a new directory include/linux/trace/ or
> include/trace/linux/ specific for these types of files?

I can take responsibility for moving the helper files I created.
IIRC there are a few from the RDMA core subsystem as well.

But let's first decide on a proper destination for such files.
A sister directory to include/trace/events, like

  include/trace/ < something >

makes sense to me.


--
Chuck Lever