Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] tracing: Remove conditional locking from __DO_TRACE()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 at 07:31, Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  include/linux/tracepoint.h | 45 ++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Thanks. This looks much more straightforward, and obviously is smaller too.

Side note: I realize I was the one suggesting "scoped_guard()", but
looking at the patch I do think that just unnecessarily added another
level of indentation. Since you already wrote the

    if (cond) {
        ..
    }

part as a block statement, there's no upside to the guard having its
own scoped block, so instead of

    if (cond) { \
        scoped_guard(preempt_notrace)           \
            __DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args)); \
    }

this might be simpler as just a plain "guard()" and one less indentation:

    if (cond) { \
        guard(preempt_notrace);           \
        __DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args)); \
    }

but by now this is just an unimportant detail.

I think I suggested scoped_guard() mainly because that would then just
make the "{ }" in the if-statement superfluous, but that's such a
random reason that it *really* doesn't matter.

             Linus