Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace trace event: introduce assignment macros

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Frederic Weisbecker (fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:22:11AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > This patch proposes encapsulation of the raw assignments within TP_fast_assign()
> > by introducing tp_assign() and tp_memcpy() macros. This will allow us to:
> > 
> > - generically filter from input fields,
> > - redefine the field write primitives.
> > 
> > The current macros map directly to the old code. I changed the documentation in
> > tracepoint.txt to reflect these new primitives, but all TRACE_EVENT() users
> > should gradually update their code to use these macro wrappers rather than raw
> > "=" assignments or mempcy() calls.

Hrm, while we are there, I notice the presence of __assign_str(). Maybe we
should also create the following mapping, for the sake of streamlining the
interface:

#define tp_strcpy(dest, src)   __assign_str(dest, src)

Thoughts ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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