On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:05:46 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov <a...@fb.com> wrote:

> Like the only reason my patch is counting till 17 is because of
> trace_iwlwifi_dev_ucode_error().
> The next offenders are using 12 arguments:
> trace_mc_event()
> trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive()
> 
> Clearly not every efficient usage of it:
>          trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(pgdat->node_id,
>                          nr_scanned, nr_reclaimed,
>                          stat.nr_dirty,  stat.nr_writeback,
>                          stat.nr_congested, stat.nr_immediate,
>                          stat.nr_activate, stat.nr_ref_keep,
>                          stat.nr_unmap_fail,
>                          sc->priority, file);
> could have passed &stat instead.

Yes they should have, and if I was on the Cc for that patch, I would
have yelled at them and told them that's exactly what they needed to do.

Perhaps I should add something to keep any tracepoint from having more
than 6 arguments. That should force a clean up quickly.

I think I may start doing that.

-- Steve

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