On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: >> >> clang/llvm has no problem with u64 :) >> This bpf_context struct for tracing is trying to answer the question: >> 'what's the most convenient way to access tracepoint arguments >> from a script'. >> When kernel code has something like: >> trace_kfree_skb(skb, net_tx_action); >> the script needs to be able to access this 'skb' and 'net_tx_action' >> values through _single_ data structure. >> In this proposal they are ctx->arg1 and ctx->arg2. >> I've considered having different bpf_context's for every event, but >> the complexity explodes. I need to hack all event definitions and so on. >> imo it's better to move complexity to userspace, so program author >> or high level language abstracts these details. > > I still don't understand why making them long instead of u64 is > helpful, though. I feel like I'm missing obvious here.
I promise to come back to this... Have to go off grid... will think of it in the mean time... Appreciate this discussion!! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
