Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 18 August 2017 at 14:52, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:44:15 +0100
> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >> It appears the stuff above needs to be move inside the double-include
>> >> guard (which oddly enough does not cover the entire file)
>> >
>> > Why was this moved to the header file? To fulfill some checkpatch
>> > warning?
>> >
>>
>> Yes.
>
> My preference is to ignore that checkpatch warning. The section
> variables are created by linker magic, and not normal "extern"
> variables. They are only used in one location, and I like to keep them
> where they are used, and not be something other places might think they
> can be used. In other words, keep them by the C code, and out of
> headers.
>
> Tracepoints and linker/asm work always triggers a lot of bogus
> checkpatch warnings. Which is unfortunate. :-/
>

Actually, I couldn't agree more. I will backpedal on the checkpatch
appeasement in v3 in general.

Thanks,
Ard.