Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracepoints: Move struct tracepoint to new tracepoint-defs.h header

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Dec 01 2015 - 20:56:39 EST


On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:00:58 -0800
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Steven recommended open coding access to tracepoint->key to add
> trace points to headers. Unfortunately this is difficult for some
> headers (such as x86 asm/msr.h) because including tracepoint.h
> includes so many other headers that it causes include loops.
> The main problem is the include of linux/rcupdate.h, which
> pulls in a lot of other headers. The rcu header is only needed
> when actually defining trace points.
>
> Move the struct tracepoint into a separate tracepoint-defs.h
> header that can be included without pulling in all of RCU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve
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