Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Teach perf_trace_##call() to checkhlist_empty(perf_events)

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Aug 12 2013 - 13:51:29 EST


On 08/12, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> So I suppose the down-side to putting them in TP_ARGS() is that you
> cannot use arbitrary expressions for them anymore; like:
>
> TP_ARGS(foo);
>
> TP_perf_assign(
> __perf_task(foo->ponies);
> __perf_count(foo->horses);
> ),
>
> Not that we actually did something like that, but I imagine it might've
> been useful..

Yes. This is of course less generic. And more confusing, I agree.

> A well, lets not worry too much about that and go with
> this. We'll get creative again if we ever need something like that.
>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks ;)

BTW. Can't we kill __perf_addr() and the corresponding argument in
perf_trace_buf_submit/perf_tp_event ?

Or do you think it can have a new user?

Oleg.

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