Hi Ted, On Apr 11, 2014, at 18:32, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I want to add some trace points which display f_mode and f_flags from > struct file in a human way. I found the following handy macros defined > in fs/nfs/nfstrace.h: > > #define show_open_flags(flags) \ > __print_flags((unsigned long)flags, "|", \ > { O_CREAT, "O_CREAT" }, \ > { O_EXCL, "O_EXCL" }, \ > { O_TRUNC, "O_TRUNC" }, \ > { O_APPEND, "O_APPEND" }, \ > { O_DSYNC, "O_DSYNC" }, \ > { O_DIRECT, "O_DIRECT" }, \ > { O_DIRECTORY, "O_DIRECTORY" }) > > #define show_fmode_flags(mode) \ > __print_flags(mode, "|", \ > { ((__force unsigned long)FMODE_READ), "READ" }, \ > { ((__force unsigned long)FMODE_WRITE), "WRITE" }, \ > { ((__force unsigned long)FMODE_EXEC), "EXEC" }) > > I could just cut and paste these and drop them in > include/trace/events/ext4.h, but it would probably be better to have a > common header file. The question is where to put them. Does > include/trace/fs.h make sense to everyone? Or should put them > somewhere else, such as linux/fs.h? I’d vote for creating a new file, rather than reusing include/linux/fs.h. The latter is included in way too many other headers... include/trace/fs.h sounds just fine to me if Steven and the other tracepoint gurus are OK with it. Cheers Trond _________________________________ Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html