[PATCH V3] trace/events: add chip name and hwirq to irq entry tracepoint

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > +
> > +#define show_chip_name(irq)					\
> > +	(irq_get_irq_data(irq)					\
> > +			 ? irq_get_irq_data(irq)->chip->name	\
> > +			 : "NULL")
> > +
> > +#define show_hwirq(irq)						\
> > +	(irq_get_irq_data(irq)					\
> > +			 ? irq_get_irq_data(irq)->hwirq		\
> > +			 : -ENODEV)
> 
> Note these magic functions will only be useful for the tracefs reads of
> the trace files. Userspace tools that extract the data (like perf and
> trace-cmd), will have no idea of how to parse it.
> 
> I'm not against doing this, but I'm just letting you know what the
> effect of this change will be.

What's worse is, that they are racy against a concurrent teardown of
the interrupt. Not a good idea ...

Thanks,

	tglx