From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)" <y.karadz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add Plugin event handlers to session.
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:48:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920094832.7e3a0cfb@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e79dde81-68a4-4310-348d-a7da677a5d4d@gmail.com>
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:26:11 +0300
"Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)" <y.karadz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20.09.2018 06:24, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> /** Special mask used whene filtering events. */
> >> KS_EVENT_VIEW_FILTER_MASK = 1 << 2,
> >> +
> >> + /**
> >> + * Use this mask to check if the content of the entry has been accessed
> >> + * by a plugin-defined function.
> >> + */
> >> + KS_PLUGIN_UNTOUCHED_MASK = 1 << 7
> > Why the jump to 7?
>
> The "visible" field of the entry will use 8 bits. I know that it is
> uint16_t now, but my plan is to use 8 of its bits for the stream_id field.
>
> Currently we use the first 3 bits as different visibility flags and we
> have 4 unused bits available for adding more visibility flags in the
> future. Because the PLUGIN_UNTOUCHED flag has a different meaning I
> decided to place it at the very end.
>
> Is this a problem?
No, it just seems out of place. Can you add a comment after the
VIEW_FILTER_MASK stating that the next 4 bits are reserved for more
VIEW bits.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 14:36 [PATCH v4 0/7] Add infrastructure for plugins Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add plugin infrastructure to be used by the Qt-baset KS Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 3:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add Plugin event handlers to session Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 3:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-20 13:26 ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 13:48 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-09-20 13:29 ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 13:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add C++/C conversion for args of a plugin draw function Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] kernel-shark-qt: Make kshark_read_at() non-static Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 3:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add src/plugins dir. to hold the source code of the plugins Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] kernel-shark-qt: Tell Doxygen to enter ../src/plugins/ Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-19 14:36 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] kernel-shark-qt: Add a plugin for sched events Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2018-09-20 4:11 ` Steven Rostedt
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