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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
	acme@kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@redhat.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: wangnan0@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] tracing: Add new trace type for bpf data output
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 18:35:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559C7E66.9040404@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436269386-72037-2-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com>

On 7/7/15 4:43 AM, He Kuang wrote:
> +	F_STRUCT(
> +		__field(long,	size)

as Peter said please use u32 to avoid 32 vs 64-bit issues.

> +		__array(u64,	raw_data,	TRACE_BPF_MAX_ENTRY)
> +	),
> +
> +	F_printk("%ld: (%016llx, ...)", __entry->size, __entry->raw_data[0]),

can we conditionally print raw_data[0], raw_data[1], ..[3] when
values are non-zero? '...' as part of print is kinda useless.
Also I would drop '()' and ',' they don't add much value.
Remember we won't be able to change this format once it goes in.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07 11:43 [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] Make eBPF programs output data to perf event He Kuang
2015-07-07 11:43 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] tracing: Add new trace type for bpf data output He Kuang
2015-07-07 22:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-08  1:35   ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-07-07 11:43 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] bpf: Introduce function for outputing data to perf event He Kuang
2015-07-08  1:45   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-08  1:31 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] Make eBPF programs output " Alexei Starovoitov

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