Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs

From: Jason Baron
Date: Fri Aug 21 2009 - 16:09:40 EST


On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:37:09PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 08/21/2009 10:57 AM, Jason Baron wrote:
> >> +TRACE_EVENT_WITH_CALLBACK(sys_enter,
> >
> > don't we want to change this to something like 'sys_enter_generic'?
> > otherwise, looks good.
>
> Since all of the specific events are named "sys_enter_foo", I thought
> that it would be clear that an unadorned "sys_enter" was the more
> generic syscall event. Calling it "sys_enter_generic" seems to me by
> convention to mean a system call named "generic".
>
> I don't want to bikeshed this though -- if you still think
> "sys_enter_generic" is better, then I'll change it.
>

no I don't feel strongly about it...whatever the consensus is...

thanks,

-Jason
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