Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 01/10] treewide: remove struct-pass-by-value from tracepoints arguments

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, but instead of changing it to pass by reference, why not just pass
> the value. That is:
>
>  static void xen_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
>  {
> -       trace_xen_mmu_set_pte_atomic(ptep, pte);
> +       trace_xen_mmu_set_pte_atomic(ptep, native_pte_val(pte));
>         set_64bit((u64 *)ptep, native_pte_val(pte));
>  }

That looks simple and clean, and makes sense since the function itself
then uses that value anyway.

Certainly simpler than my monster define.

           Linus
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