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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:33:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930133335.GA14585@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254260407-14276-1-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:40:07PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> The tracepoint ext4_da_write_pages has a struct mpage_da_data*
> parameter, but that struct is only defined in fs/ext4/ext4.h.  This
> patch adds a forward declaration for that struct, so this tracepoint
> header can still be used by tools like SystemTap.

That's not what the tracepoints are for anyway.  No hacks for out of
tree crap like this please - just use the trace buffer directly like
ftrace and then you don't actually need any data types.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 21:40 [PATCH] ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header Josh Stone
2009-09-30 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-30 14:20   ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-30 19:45     ` Josh Stone
2009-09-30 21:23       ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-01  0:13         ` Josh Stone

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