Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools lib traceevent: Introduce pevent_strerror

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:01:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 16:42 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> +int pevent_strerror(struct pevent *pevent, enum pevent_errno errnum,
>> +		    char *buf, size_t buflen)
>
> Hmm, actually I wonder if we should put the error into the pevent
> structure. Then we wouldn't even need to waste time to pass the data
> through.
>
> That is, you can simply do:
>
> 	ret = pevent_foo();
> 	if (ret < 0) {
> 		pevent_strerr(pevent, buf, buflen);
> 		printf("%s\n", buf);
> 	}
>
> Perhaps even include a pevent_perror(), to just do:
>
> 	if (ret < 0) {
> 		pevent_perror(pevent);
> 		return ret;
> 	}
>

I thought something like this, but worried about the thread-safety. What
about if more than one thread call pevent functions for a same pevent
concurrently?  Should we make the pevent->errno TLS?

Thanks,
Namhyung