Re: [RFC] tracing: adding flags to events

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:18:23PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > +
> > >  #undef TRACE_EVENT
> > >  #define TRACE_EVENT(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print)		\
> > >  enum print_line_t							\
> > > @@ -127,6 +132,7 @@ ftrace_raw_output_##call(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags)	\
> > >  	struct trace_seq *s = &iter->seq;				\
> > >  	struct ftrace_raw_##call *field;				\
> > >  	struct trace_entry *entry;					\
> > > +	struct trace_seq *p;						\
> > >  	int ret;							\
> > >  									\
> > >  	entry = iter->ent;						\
> > > @@ -138,7 +144,9 @@ ftrace_raw_output_##call(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags)	\
> > >  									\
> > >  	field = (typeof(field))entry;					\
> > >  									\
> > > +	p = &get_cpu_var(ftrace_event_seq);				\
> > >  	ret = trace_seq_printf(s, #call ": " print);			\
> > > +	put_cpu();							\
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't understand the role of this per-cpu trace_seq variable.
> > It doesn't seem to be used.
> 
> See it now? ;-)


Still not :-)

I don't understand, it doesn't seem to be used. May be I'm too
much sleepy to understand...


> -- Steve