On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 17:45 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
quoted text
> Hi,
> 
> Ranting about:
> 
> commit 1bf4af165050d90ea6659ffb2536ec8ca783aab5
> Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Date:   Mon Oct 26 18:47:42 2009 +0000
> 
>     powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit
> 
> Why are there TRACE_EVENT() declarations in arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h for
> irq_entry/exit ?
> 
> What's so special about them that they cannot be put in linux/trace/ ?
> 
> I'm all for the trace_irq_entry/exit instrumentation, but I don't see any good
> in adding event declarations outside of include/trace/.


If there is any specific architecture data being recorded in the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, then it should be arch specific, but if not, then
it should go in  include/trace/

/me goes to look at the code.

-- Steve

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