Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracepoints: Add helper to test if tracepoint is enabled in a header

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

----- On Sep 24, 2020, at 4:13 PM, rostedt rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> If headers which happens to be included by include/trace/events/ headers are
>> the issue, and they happen to only be needed by CREATE_TRACE_PROBES, then we
>> should consider wrapping those #include with #ifdef CREATE_TRACE_PROBES guards.
> 
> Well, we are at a point you can't even use preempt_disable().
> 
> Whatever wants to use this tracepoint_enabled() macro, is going to have
> to include something that doesn't include tracepoint.h.

I'd be a bit more specific: so far, the msr.h use-case requires to include
directly tracepoint-defs.h and use a tracepoint_enabled() macro defined there.

Other less "core" header use-cases could still include tracepoint.h, as long as
there is no circular dependency.

Thanks,

Mathieu


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