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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add an fsync tracer
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:20:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106072056.GL15731@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081105123604.633105ca@infradead.org>


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > > +	buffer = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL);

> > > +	err = d_path(&file->f_path, buffer, 4096);

hm, magic constants.

> > > +	if (IS_ERR(err))
> > > +		goto out;
> > > +
> > > +	ftrace_printk("Process %s is calling fsync on %s\n",
> > > +			current->comm, err);
> > 
> > err? not buffer?
> 
> correct, not buffer
> 
> it won't work if you use buffer.

please use some other name than 'err' - since "error" is just a 
property of the path string pointer you get back from do_path().

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-05 17:49 [PATCH] ftrace: add an fsync tracer Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-05 19:43 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-11-05 20:36   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06  7:20     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-11-06 12:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-06 13:28   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-06 14:06   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06 14:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-06 14:31       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06 14:50         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-06 15:01           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06 15:34             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-06 17:45               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06 20:19                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-11-06 20:29                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-06 20:57                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-11-06 21:18                     ` Jason Baron
2008-11-06 21:53                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-06 22:14                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-11-06 22:25                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-06 23:25                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-11-07  4:25                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-07  5:12                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-06 21:13                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-06 21:20                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-11-06 14:14   ` Arjan van de Ven

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