On 07/09/2020 16:51, Qais Yousef wrote: > On 09/07/20 13:13, pet...@infradead.org wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:48:45AM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: >>> IMHO the above is a hack. Out-of-tree modules should rely on public headers >>> and >>> exported functions only. What you propose means that people who want to use >>> these tracepoints in meaningful way must have a prebuilt kernel handy. >>> Which is >>> maybe true for us who work in the embedded world. But users who run normal >>> distro kernels (desktop/servers) will fail to build against >> >> But this isn't really aimed at regular users. We're aiming this at >> developers (IIUC) so I dont really see this as a problem.
This is what I thought as well. All these helpers can be coded directly in these tracepoint-2-traceevent (tp-2-te) converters. As long as they are build from within kernel/sched/ there is no issue with the export via kernel/sched/sched.h. Otherwise this little trick would be necessary. But since it is a tool for developers I guess we can assume that they can build it from within kernel/sched/. I tested: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907091717.26116-1-dietmar.eggem...@arm.com with our EAS integration which provides one of these tp-2-t2 converter (sched_tp.c). http://linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-power.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/topic/tracepoints [...]