Re: [patch 01/15] Kernel Tracepoints

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 14:55:48 EST


Hi,

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:46 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
>> Talking about headers, I have noticed that placing headers with the code
>> may not be as clean as I would hope. For instance, the kernel/irq-trace.h
>> header, when included from kernel/irq/handle.c, has to be included with:
>>
>> #include "../irq-trace.h"
>>
>> Which is not _that_ bad, but we we want to instrument the irq handler
>> found in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel_64.c, including
>> #include "../../../../../kernel/irq-trace.h" makes me go "yeeeek!"
>>
>> How about creating include/trace/irq.h and friends ?
>
> Might as well.. anybody else got opinions?

I just wonder why DEFINE_TRACE are used in separated headers
instead of include/linux/irq.h directly.

anyway, #include <trace/XXX.h> is good to me.

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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