[RFC,PATCH 14/14] utrace core

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Wed Nov 25 16:00:32 UTC 2009


* Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com> wrote:

> Much better. But in this case please note that most of tracehooks just 
> do:
> 
> 		if (unlikely(task_utrace_flags(current) & SOME_EVENT))
> 			utrace_report_some_event();
> 
> I really don't understand why we shouldn't have (trivial!) helpers for 
> this. (As for naming - personally I do not care at all ;)

We prefer helpers in most such cases - especially when in the normal 
case the helper has no side effects - as here. Then we want to compress 
all such reporting/callback as much as possible.

Using helpers to abstract away functionality is one of the basic 
elements of writing clean kernel code.

	Ingo




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