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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing/events: make __string() more general
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:43:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1C9AC4.3090704@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090526060232.GA10669@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:04:28PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> This changes __string(..., src) to __string(..., len), thus makes it more
>> general, and then block TRACE_EVENT() can use it.
>>
>> Also introduce __fetch_str(), which is used in TP_assign() and returns
>> the address of the string, while __get_str() is used in TP_print().
> 
> If you want to make it really generaly dealing with NULL string pointers
> would be extremly helpful.  I ran into that limitation (and the length
> one fixed here) when converting the XFS tracing over.
> 

I'm not suffering from NULL str, so I'm not quite sure how you want __string()
deal with it.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26  4:03 [PATCH v2 0/2] tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() Li Zefan
2009-05-26  4:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing/events: make __string() more general Li Zefan
2009-05-26  6:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-27  1:43     ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-05-27  7:30       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-27  8:12         ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  9:55           ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-26 20:56   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-27  1:24     ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  1:49       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-27  1:59         ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  2:15           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-27  2:33             ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  2:47               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-27  7:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-26  4:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() Li Zefan
2009-06-09  5:43 ` [PATCH v3] " Li Zefan
2009-06-10  9:22   ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan

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