Re: Problem with CREATE_TRACE_POINTS and recursion safety

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 22:03:04 EST



On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I'm having a problem with CREATE_TRACE_POINTS being too indiscriminate.
> > > The
> > > trouble is that it not only creates tracepoint definitions for the
> > > intended
> > > tracepoints, but any other tracepoint definitions which get included
> > > incidentally.
> > >
> > > For example, I'm seeing my paravirt tracepoints being instantiated in both
> > > kernel/sched.o and kernel/irq/manage.o as side-effects of the scheduler
> > > and
> > > irq tracepoints being instantiated.
> > >
> > > I'm experimenting with a different scheme, wherein a subsystem defines
> > > CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS in the .c file where it wants to instantiate the
> > > tracepoints - rather than CREATE_TRACE_POINTS - and its trace/events/foo.h
> > > does:
> > >
> > > #ifdef CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS
> > > #undef CREATE_FOO_TRACE_POINTS /* avoid infinite recursion */
> > > #include <trace/instantiate_trace.h>
> > > #else
> > > #include <trace/define_trace.h>
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > where instantiate_trace.h is:
> > >
> > > #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> > > #include <trace/define_trace.h>
> > > #undef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS

Have you tried:

#ifdef CREATE_PVOPS_TRACE_POINTS
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/define_trace.h>
#undef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#endif

And in your C file do:

#define CREATE_PVOPS_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/pvops.h>

??

-- Steve
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