Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754989AbZJEVbf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:31:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754970AbZJEVbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:31:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1940 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754960AbZJEVbd (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4ACA6660.7020607@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:24 -0400 From: Masami Hiramatsu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederic Weisbecker CC: Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , lkml , systemtap , DLE , Thomas Gleixner , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Mike Galbraith , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Christoph Hellwig , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Jim Keniston , "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 1/5] tracing/kprobes: Rename special variables syntax References: <20091002214834.30906.86502.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> <20091002214842.30906.49220.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> <20091003015444.GE4828@nowhere> <4AC830F0.2010003@redhat.com> <20091005191829.GA6071@nowhere> <4ACA549F.9010300@redhat.com> <20091005205826.GE6071@nowhere> <4ACA60E9.30404@redhat.com> <20091005212137.GG6071@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20091005212137.GG6071@nowhere> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1102 Lines: 38 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:11:05PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >>> Hmm, the problem is that %1, %2, etc. is not very self-explainable. >>> >>> May be %arg1, %arg2, etc.. But would that sound confusing since we >>> have % for registers? >> >> As I sent right now, how about %argumentN ? it will not conflict with >> register names... >> > > There are archs that have %arg0 %arg1, ... as register names? > > Well, arg(n) looks shorter but I won't personnally mind if > we eventually chose %argumentN. It's also clear, self-explainable > and it won't collide. Hmm, one idea hits me, how about this? :) - %register - %%spvars (%%retval, %%arg0) Thank you, -- Masami Hiramatsu Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Software Solutions Division e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/