Hi Steven,
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:14:00AM +0800, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Names of the writeback reasons are used in both the main kernel as well
> as for parsing the tracepoint format file. Instead of duplicating the
> names in two locations making it likely that they may become out of
> sync, use some macro magic to make sure all the names stay in sync. Any
> update only needs to happen in one spot for it to take place in all
> locations.
It looks a bit hacky, but does the nice job of de-duplicating code.
And it compiles. So I like it and would like to take it with the below
rename :-)
> Note, this is an RFC patch, and it probably needs much better comments
> (well, it currently has no comments), and the C() macro probably should
> have a different name too.
C => WB_ENUM_REASONS_ITEM? It may look unpleasantly long, however is
unique enough to make the many #define/#undef safe.
Thanks!
Fengguang
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux-trace.git/fs/fs-writeback.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-trace.git.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ linux-trace.git/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -47,15 +47,10 @@ struct wb_writeback_work {
> struct completion *done; /* set if the caller waits */
> };
>
> +#undef C
> +#define C(a, b) [a] = b
> const char *wb_reason_name[] = {
> - [WB_REASON_BACKGROUND] = "background",
> - [WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES] = "try_to_free_pages",
> - [WB_REASON_SYNC] = "sync",
> - [WB_REASON_PERIODIC] = "periodic",
> - [WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER] = "laptop_timer",
> - [WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM] = "free_more_memory",
> - [WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE] = "fs_free_space",
> - [WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD] = "forker_thread"
> + WB_ENUM_REASONS
> };
>
> /*
> Index: linux-trace.git/include/linux/writeback.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-trace.git.orig/include/linux/writeback.h
> +++ linux-trace.git/include/linux/writeback.h
> @@ -38,21 +38,23 @@ enum writeback_sync_modes {
> WB_SYNC_ALL, /* Wait on every mapping */
> };
>
> +#define WB_ENUM_REASONS \
> + C(WB_REASON_BACKGROUND, "background"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES, "try_to_free_pages"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_SYNC, "sync"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_PERIODIC, "periodic"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER, "laptop_timer"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM, "free_more_memory"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE, "fs_free_space"), \
> + C(WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD, "forker_thread")
> +
> /*
> * why some writeback work was initiated
> */
> -enum wb_reason {
> - WB_REASON_BACKGROUND,
> - WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES,
> - WB_REASON_SYNC,
> - WB_REASON_PERIODIC,
> - WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER,
> - WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM,
> - WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE,
> - WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD,
> +#undef C
> +#define C(a, b) a
> +enum wb_reason { WB_ENUM_REASONS, WB_REASONS_MAX };
>
> - WB_REASON_MAX,
> -};
> extern const char *wb_reason_name[];
>
> /*
> Index: linux-trace.git/include/trace/events/writeback.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-trace.git.orig/include/trace/events/writeback.h
> +++ linux-trace.git/include/trace/events/writeback.h
> @@ -21,16 +21,11 @@
> {I_REFERENCED, "I_REFERENCED"} \
> )
>
> +#undef C
> +#define C(a, b) {a, b}
> #define show_work_reason(reason) \
> __print_symbolic(reason, \
> - {WB_REASON_BACKGROUND, "background"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES, "try_to_free_pages"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_SYNC, "sync"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_PERIODIC, "periodic"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER, "laptop_timer"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM, "free_more_memory"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE, "fs_free_space"}, \
> - {WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD, "forker_thread"} \
> + WB_ENUM_REASONS \
> )
>
> struct wb_writeback_work;
>
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