Re: [PATCH 1/4] tools lib traceevent: Add state member to struct trace_seq

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 06:34:23PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> 
> The trace_seq->state is for tracking errors during the use of
> trace_seq APIs and getting rid of die() in it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h |  7 +++++++
>  tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.c   | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h
> index cf5db9013f2c..3c890cb28db7 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ struct pevent_record {
>  #endif
>  };
>  
> +enum trace_seq_fail {
> +	TRACE_SEQ__GOOD,
> +	TRACE_SEQ__BUFFER_POISONED,
> +	TRACE_SEQ__MEM_ALLOC_FAILED,
> +};
> +
>  /*
>   * Trace sequences are used to allow a function to call several other functions
>   * to create a string of data to use (up to a max of PAGE_SIZE).
> @@ -68,6 +74,7 @@ struct trace_seq {
>  	unsigned int		buffer_size;
>  	unsigned int		len;
>  	unsigned int		readpos;
> +	enum trace_seq_fail	state;
>  };
>  
>  void trace_seq_init(struct trace_seq *s);
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.c
> index d7f2e68bc5b9..976ad2a146b3 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.c
> @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
>  #define TRACE_SEQ_POISON	((void *)0xdeadbeef)
>  #define TRACE_SEQ_CHECK(s)						\
>  do {									\
> -	if ((s)->buffer == TRACE_SEQ_POISON)			\
> -		die("Usage of trace_seq after it was destroyed");	\
> +	if ((s)->buffer == TRACE_SEQ_POISON)				\
> +		(s)->state = TRACE_SEQ__BUFFER_POISONED;		\

So unless we use trace_seq_do_printf we dont have any
notification that this went wrong..?

How about use some sort of WARN_ONCE any time the state
is set != GOOD ?

thanks,
jirka