Re: [PATCH 1/1] tracing: Introduce "pseudo registers" forFETCH_MTD_reg

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Nov 25 2013 - 09:34:22 EST


On 11/25, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:32:53 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > (2013/11/24 5:16), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> >> This syntax is %%pseudo-reg-name, I agree in advance with any other
> >> naming.
> >
> > For this kind of use, kprobe-tracer already provides '$' prefix :)
> > e.g. $stack, $retval etc. Please see parse_probe_vars in trace_probe.c.
> >
> > So, $current and $cpu is better for me.
>
> Agreed.

OK, thanks, I'll redo.

But I hope you will agree with overloading of FETCH_MTD_reg, I do not
want to add yet another method.



In fact I thought about $current too, and I agree it looks better. But
this conflicts with other changes I had in mind. I was going to add the
support for @symbol+%reg and +%reg(...), then add the %%percpu_shift
pseudo reg. But on a second thought this doesn't look very nice, so
lets use $name.

Oleg.

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