Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] irq: add tracepoint to softirq_raise

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 03 2010 - 11:39:48 EST


On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> > #define softirq_name(sirq) { sirq##_SOFTIRQ, #sirq }
> > #define show_softirq_name(val) \
> > @@ -93,7 +95,10 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(softirq,
> > ),
> >
> > TP_fast_assign(
> > - __entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
> > + if (vec)
> > + __entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
> > + else
> > + __entry->vec = *((int *)h);
> > ),
>
>
>
> It seems that this will break softirq_entry/exit tracepoints.
> __entry->vec will deref vec->action() for these two, which is not
> what we want.

But for trace_softirq_entry and trace_softirq_exit, vec will not be
NULL.


>
> If you can't have the same tracepoint signature for the three, just
> split the new one in a seperate TRACE_EVENT().

It may be a bit of a hack, and questionable about adding another
TRACE_EVENT(). There still is a pretty good space savings in using
DEFINE_EVENT() over TRACE_EVENT() though.

-- Steve



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