On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:14:00PM -0500, 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.
>
> 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.
I'm not sure this is a pattern we want to repeat all over the place -
print_symbolic() is quite widely used and adding macro redefinitions
all over the place doesn't fill me with joy.
AFAICT this code doesn't need a declared array to work so you can
just use a preprocessor construct like this (as used in XFS):
#define value_1 1
#define value_2 2
.....
or
enum {
value_1 = 1,
value_2 = 2,
.....
}
followed by:
#define VALUES \
{ value_1, "Value 1" }, \
{ value_2, "Value 2" }, \
.....
And it just uses print_symbolic(__entry->value, VALUES); to print
them out.
If this construct does everything requiredi, then I think it is a
much better pattern to use because it's easy to maintain, doesn't
require an array to be declared in a C file and doesn't require
macro tricks to do it's job....
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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