Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:17:21 -0700 | From | "Jared Hulbert" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c |
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> /proc has the same ABI restrictions as sysfs. We more or less stopped > allowing new files in /proc some 5 years ago for this reason. I didn't > even read beyond the word /proc to know that what you do here is wrong. > debugfs is normally easier to use than procfs as well, you just > define some file_operations with read/write callbacks and call > debugfs_create_file with the path name below /sys/kernel/debug.
no /proc. thanks for the explanation.
So /sys/kernel/debug/axfs/volume0 would work?
> 4) no profiling at all > The profiling code has certainly been useful to you during development, > and you should keep that code around for your own work on it, > but maybe you should not push that upstream, because regular users > are not going to need it.
Nope. Profiling is absolutely fundamental to how AXFS works. Read the [PATCH 00/10] thread again.
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