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Re: Porting DTrace to ARM



On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:34:18PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Masao Uebayashi 
> <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Ah.  I misread that schedstate_percpu uses percpu(9)'s fast path,
> > which doesn't exist...
> >
> > Anyway if it's assumed that cpu is not attached at run-time, assigning
> > struct cpu_data::void *cpu_dtraceinfo at module attachment would be
> > just fine.
> 
> void * is probably good, otherwise we have to pull out structure definitions
> (ok, there are two: solaris_cpu_t and cpu_core_t) from external/cddl.
> opensolaris_init in external/cddl/osnet/sys/kern/opensolaris.c
> is a good place to assign, I think.

Using 'void *' causes problems with knowing which pointer is valid
for a given call.
There is no problem using 'struct foo *' without the contents of
'struct foo' being visible.

        David

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