Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr' to 'syscall_nr'

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Feb 25 2016 - 12:05:11 EST


On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:53:47 +0900
Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> The underlying cause of this problem is not because of
> the python script. This problem have relevance to tracing/syscalls
> as below.
>
> # cat
> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_io_getevents/format
> name: sys_enter_io_getevents
> ID: 739
> format:
> field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0;size:2;signed:0;
> field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2;size:1;signed:0;
> field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3;size:1;signed:0;
> field:int common_pid; offset:4;size:4;signed:1;
> field:int nr; offset:8;size:4;signed:1;
> field:aio_context_t ctx_id; offset:16;size:8;signed:0;
> field:long min_nr; offset:24;size:8;signed:0;
> field:long nr; offset:32;size:8;signed:0;
> field:struct io_event * events; offset:40;size:8;signed:0;
> field:struct timespec * timeout; offset:48;size:8;signed:0;
>
> print fmt: "ctx_id: 0x%08lx, min_nr: 0x%08lx, nr: 0x%08lx, events:
> 0x%08lx, timeout: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->ctx_id)), ((unsigned
> long)(REC->min_nr)), ((unsigned long)(REC->nr)), ((unsigned
> long)(REC->events)), ((unsigned long)(REC->timeout))
>
>
> As you see, there are duplicated variable name among fields.
> So I renamed the variable name 'nr' to 'syscall_nr' to avoid this
> duplication. As you know 'nr' in print_syscall_enter() mean
> system call number so, I changed 'nr' to 'syscall_nr'(IMHO).
>

The above should have been in the change log. That makes much more
sense.

Thanks!

-- Steve