Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] net/tcp: trace all TCP/IP state transition with tcp_set_state tracepoint

[Yafang Shao]

2017-12-08 23:42 GMT+08:00 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 11:40:23 +0800
>
>> It will looks like these,
>>
>>     if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)
>>         __tcp_set_state(newsk, TCP_SYN_RECV);
>>     else
>>         newsk->sk_state = TCP_SYN_RECV;
>>
>>
>>     if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)
>>           __tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE);
>>     else
>>           sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
>>
>>     if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)
>>           tcp_state_store(sk,  state);
>>     else
>>           sk_state_store(sk, state);
>>
>>
>> Some redundant code.
>>
>> IMO, put these similar code into a wrapper is more nice.
>
> I think this discussion and how ugly this is getting shows that
> tracing the state transitions of a socket is perhaps not best as a TCP
> specific feature.

Do you mean that tcp_set_state tracepoint should be replaced with
sk_set_state tracepoint and move that tracepoint to
trace/events/sock.h ?

Thanks
Yafang