Re: [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h tokmemtrace part and tracepoint part

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Apr 12 2009 - 06:25:52 EST



* Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:03:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Zhaolei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
> > > tracepoints definition.
> > > Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
> > > definition of tracepoint.
> > >
> > > We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
> > > include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
> > > include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepoints
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/kmemtrace.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > include/linux/slab_def.h | 2 +-
> > > include/linux/slub_def.h | 2 +-
> > > include/trace/{kmemtrace.h => kmem.h} | 25 +++----------------------
> > > init/main.c | 2 +-
> > > kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c | 2 +-
> > > kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 +-
> > > mm/slab.c | 2 +-
> > > mm/slob.c | 2 +-
> > > mm/slub.c | 2 +-
> > > 10 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > > create mode 100644 include/linux/kmemtrace.h
> > > rename include/trace/{kmemtrace.h => kmem.h} (78%)
> >
> > Pekka, Eduard, do you agree with these two patches? Converting those
> > tracepoints to TRACE_EVENT() is really nice. The above include file
> > restructuring makes sense too - it separates tracepoint definition
> > from the plugin init method.
> >
> > Ingo
>
> Yes, these two patches look great. The first one makes the
> kmem tracepoints usable by other things (e.g. kmemcheck)
> in a kmemtrace-independent fashion, which is nice. Thanks,
> Zhao.
>
> One thing I don't actually get is why have kmem_event_types.h
> separate from kmem.h, but it's not really an issue, I see other
> tracers doing the same thing. Other than that, it looks fine
> although I didn't test. Here's the ack if you need it:
>
> Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I've applied the patches to tip:tracing/ftrace - thanks guys!

The separation of kmem.h from kmem_event_types.h is mainly to keep
the generic event definitions separate from other 'glue'. Indeed it
looks a bit artificial here.

Ingo
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