From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, wcohen@redhat.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, jbaron@redhat.com,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: trace/events: DECLARE vs DEFINE semantic
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:11:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B17E337.8070301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259855773.12870.137.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:31 -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>>>> Would you mean putting those headers in sub-system's directory?
>>>> (e.g. fs/ext4/)
>>>> In that case, a problem will happen when user want to hook those
>>>> tracepoint from their module, because it is hard to find those
>>>> local headers.
>>>
>>> Why? Modules usually do have their own headers in their sub system.
>>
>> Module's local headers usually uses only from itself. Other modules
>> may not touch it. However, AFAIK, event definitions must be referred
>> by event consumer which is another module. IOW, those local headers
>> will not be included in kernel-headers/kernel-devel package :-(
>
> I'm a little confused. Who is the event consumer? The trace point user?
> The one that hooks into the tracepoint?
Ah, I meant the tracepoint user module, not the ftrace event consumer.
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-03 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 17:18 [PATCH v2] tracing: add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook Jason Baron
2009-12-01 17:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-02 10:42 ` [tip:perf/core] tracing: Add " tip-bot for Jason Baron
2009-12-02 13:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 14:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-02 14:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 14:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-02 14:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 16:15 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-02 16:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-02 17:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 18:06 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-02 18:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 19:01 ` trace/events: DECLARE vs DEFINE semantic Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-02 19:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 19:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-02 22:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-02 22:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 22:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-02 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-02 23:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-02 23:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-03 3:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-02 23:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-03 4:00 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-03 4:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-03 13:51 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-03 13:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-03 14:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-03 14:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-03 14:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-03 15:31 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-03 15:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-03 16:11 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2009-12-02 20:11 ` [PATCH][tip/perf/core] tracing: Rename TRACE_EVENT and others to something resonable Steven Rostedt
2009-12-02 20:16 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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