Re: [PATCH v2] [RFC] tracepoint: Add signal coredump tracepoint

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Add signal coredump tracepoint which shows signal number, mm->flags, 
>> limits, pointer to file structure and core file name.
> 
> Why is the kernel pointer to the file structure logged? User-space has 
> no use for it and the analysis value is low.

Ah, if open() or opening pipe fails, it becomes 0 or -ERRNO,
so we can check if there is an error.

Perhaps, we can do below in trace_printk for trace users.
"open %s", (!file || IS_ERR((void *)file)) ? "failed" : "succeeded"

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

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

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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