On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:39:36AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
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> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > >  #define softirq_name(sirq) { sirq##_SOFTIRQ, #sirq }
> > >  #define show_softirq_name(val)				\
> > > @@ -93,7 +95,10 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(softirq,
> > >  	),
> > >  
> > >  	TP_fast_assign(
> > > -		__entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
> > > +		if (vec)
> > > +			__entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
> > > +		else
> > > +			__entry->vec = *((int *)h);
> > >  	),
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It seems that this will break softirq_entry/exit tracepoints.
> > __entry->vec will deref vec->action() for these two, which is not
> > what we want.
> 
> But for trace_softirq_entry and trace_softirq_exit, vec will not be
> NULL.


Oh right...

/me slaps his forehead


 
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> 
> > 
> > If you can't have the same tracepoint signature for the three, just
> > split the new one in a seperate TRACE_EVENT().
> 
> It may be a bit of a hack, and questionable about adding another
> TRACE_EVENT(). There still is a pretty good space savings in using
> DEFINE_EVENT() over TRACE_EVENT() though.


Yeah, let's keep it as is.

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