On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:16:06AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 22:31 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Hi Steven,
>
> > if (ac)
> > trace_ext4_mb_release_group_pa(ac, pa);
> >
> > But, I don't think this is proper fix because we don't want any overhead
> > if the tracepoint is disabled.
> >
> > So, How do we check NULL in TP_fast_assign()?
>
> You could do:
>
> TP_fast_assign(
> if (ac) {
> __entry->dev = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
> __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
> __entry->pa_pstart = pa->pa_pstart;
> __entry->pa_len = pa->pa_len;
> }
> ),
>
> But this just makes the __entry null and wastes the ring buffer.
>
> I may be able to add a __discard_entry that may help. Then we could do
> something like this:
>
> if (ac) {
> __entry->dev = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
> __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
> __entry->pa_pstart = pa->pa_pstart;
> __entry->pa_len = pa->pa_len;
> } else
> __discard_entry;
>
> Does this seem reasonable?
>
> But for now, the wasting the entry seems to be the only choice we have,
> or to do as you suggested and have the "if (ac) trace_...", but I don't
> like that.
>
> -- Steve
Is there no already existing branch in ext4 you could reuse in order to
send the trace only if (ac) ?
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