Re: [tracepoint] cargo-culting considered harmful...

Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-01-25T14:38:57Z

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:55:24PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > In samples/tracepoints/tracepoint-probe-sample.c:
> > /*
> > * Here the caller only guarantees locking for struct file and struct inode.
> > * Locking must therefore be done in the probe to use the dentry.
> > */
> > static void probe_subsys_event(void *ignore,
> > struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> > {
> > path_get(&file->f_path);
> > dget(file->f_path.dentry);
> > printk(KERN_INFO "Event is encountered with filename %s\n",
> > file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name);
> > dput(file->f_path.dentry);
> > path_put(&file->f_path);
> > }
> >
> > note that
> > * file->f_path is already pinned down by open(), path_get() does not
> > provide anything extra.
> > * file->f_path.dentry is already pinned by open() *and* path_get()
> > just above that dget().
> > * ->d_name.name *IS* *NOT* *PROTECTED* by pinning dentry down,
> > whether it's done once or thrice.
> >
> > I do realize that it's just an example, but perhaps we should rename that
> > file to match the contents? The only question is whether it should be
> > git mv samples/tracepoints/{tracepoint-probe-sample,cargo-cult}.c
> > or git mv samples cargo-cult...
>
> I wonder if we should just remove the samples/tracepoints/ all together.
> The tracepoint code is now only used internally by the trace_event code,
> and there should not be any users of tracepoints directly.

Yep, I'd be OK with removing this example, since now all users are
expected to user TRACE_EVENT(), which is built on top of tracepoints.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.