Re: [PATCH v7 bpf-next 06/10] tracepoint: compute num_args at build time

Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-28T18:19:34Z

On 3/28/18 11:10 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:03:24 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> wrote:
>
>> I can live with this overhead if Mathieu insists,
>> but I prefer to keep it in 'struct tracepoint'.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'm fine with keeping it as is. We could probably use it for future
> enhancements in perf and ftrace.
>
> Perhaps, we should just add a:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS
>
> Around the use cases of num_args.

it sounds like a good idea, but implementation wise
it will be ifdef CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS around u32 num_args;
in struct tracepoint and similar double definition of
DEFINE_TRACE_FN. One that uses num_args to init
struct tracepoint and one that doesn't ?
Feels like serious uglification of already macros heavy code.
Also what it will address?
cache hot/cold argument clearly doesn't apply.