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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TRACE_EVENT() declarations belong to include/trace/
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:01:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271109678.1866.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100412214511.GA2699@Krystal>

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 17:45 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ranting about:
> 
> commit 1bf4af165050d90ea6659ffb2536ec8ca783aab5
> Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Date:   Mon Oct 26 18:47:42 2009 +0000
> 
>     powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit
> 
> Why are there TRACE_EVENT() declarations in arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h for
> irq_entry/exit ?
> 
> What's so special about them that they cannot be put in linux/trace/ ?
> 
> I'm all for the trace_irq_entry/exit instrumentation, but I don't see any good
> in adding event declarations outside of include/trace/.


If there is any specific architecture data being recorded in the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, then it should be arch specific, but if not, then
it should go in  include/trace/

/me goes to look at the code.

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12 21:45 TRACE_EVENT() declarations belong to include/trace/ Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-04-12 22:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-12 22:17   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 23:17     ` Anton Blanchard
2010-04-13  0:27       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 23:24   ` Anton Blanchard

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