Re: Problem with CREATE_TRACE_POINTS and recursion safety

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> > Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > 
> > >   
> > > > I'm having a problem with CREATE_TRACE_POINTS being too indiscriminate.
> > > > The
> > > > trouble is that it not only creates tracepoint definitions for the
> > > > intended
> > > > tracepoints, but any other tracepoint definitions which get included
> > > > incidentally.
> > > > 
> > > > For example, I'm seeing my paravirt tracepoints being instantiated in both
> > > > kernel/sched.o and kernel/irq/manage.o as side-effects of the scheduler
> > > > and
> > > > irq tracepoints being instantiated.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm experimenting with a different scheme, wherein a subsystem defines
> > > > CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS in the .c file where it wants to instantiate the
> > > > tracepoints - rather than CREATE_TRACE_POINTS - and its trace/events/foo.h
> > > > does:
> > > > 
> > > >    #ifdef CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS
> > > >    #undef CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS	/* avoid infinite recursion */
> > > >    #include <trace/instantiate_trace.h>
> > > >    #else
> > > >    #include <trace/define_trace.h>
> > > >    #endif
> > > > 
> > > > where instantiate_trace.h is:
> > > > 
> > > >    #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> > > >    #include <trace/define_trace.h>
> > > >    #undef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> 
> Have you tried:
> 
> #ifdef CREATE_PVOPS_TRACE_POINTS
> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #include <trace/define_trace.h>
> #undef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #endif
> 
> And in your C file do:
> 
> #define CREATE_PVOPS_TRACE_POINTS
> #include <trace/pvops.h>
> 
> ??
> 
> -- Steve

Jeremy brings up an interesting point. Given that we might eventually
include a few tracepoint header files in a given C file, but with the
intent of only "creating" the tracepoint callbacks for few of these, the
global "CREATE_TRACE_POINTS" flag makes little sense and seems like it
will easily lead to link-time errors.

Maybe we could consider requiring something like the following solution :

In the .c file :

#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/subsysa.h>
#undef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS

#include <trace/subsysb.h>

Where subsysa has its trace points callbacks created, but subsysb
doesn't. This seems half-way understandable, at least.

Mathieu

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