Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: add 'accounted' entry into output of allocation tracepoints

Steven Rostedt
2022-05-19T16:33:05Z

On Thu, 19 May 2022 19:29:36 +0300
Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org> wrote:

> Frankly speaking I vote for performance with both hands.
> However I'm still would like to avoid new sparse warnings.
> Christoph Hellwig just recently taught me, "never add '__force' before
> thinking hard about them", but in this case I would need to use it three times.
>
> I found that bitwise typecasts can be avoided by using translation unions.
>
> What do you think about following trick?

It's really up to you memory management folks. Although I may need to
update libtraceevent to handle the union case. That may be a bit tricky.

-- Steve