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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] tracing/core: various fixes
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:46:24PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> I'm just coming back off of a holiday.
>
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> > Hi Ingo, Steven,
> >
> > I've gathered various tracing fixes that were posted recently.
> >
> > Note: the commit b11c53e12f94a46b50bccc7a1a953d7ca1d54a31
> > (ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_event)
> > looks good to me. This v3 solves the two following unhandled
> > dependencies in v1:
> >
> > ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING -> CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
> > EVENT_TRACING -> CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
> >
> > The latter is tricky because CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER depends
> > on CONFIG_FTRACE (the tracers menu) from which EVENT_TRACING
> > is excluded. A build error can then occur if something selects
> > CONFIG_TRACING elsewhere.
> >
> > The fix written by Zhaolei follows the {ENABLE_}EVENT_TRACING
> > view: we now have CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER and ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER.
> >
> > The former is used by EVENT_TRACING to record cmdlines.
> > The latter selects CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER plus CONFIG_TRACING.
> > To sum up, ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER acts only as a "relay".
>
> The sched_switch tracer is very light weight. Not sure we need to keep
> it separate.
>
> Basically, when tracing is enabled, we should simply get the event tracer
> and the sched_switch tracer for free. The configs get a bit tricky with
> dependencies. I'll take a look at it.
>
> -- Steve


So, should I zap these patches from the pull request?
Or do you think about a delta solution?

Thanks,
Frederic.


> >
> > It looks good to me, tell me and Zhaolei if you have doubts
> > about it.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > The following changes since commit 5537937696c55530447c20aa27daccb8d0d29b33:
> > Ming Lei (1):
> > ftrace: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier in event_trace_init
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
> > tracing/core
> >
> > Lai Jiangshan (1):
> > tracing: add trace_event_read_lock()
> >
> > Li Zefan (1):
> > tracing/events: change the type of __str_loc_item to unsigned short
> >
> > Pekka Enberg (1):
> > kmemtrace: fix kernel parameter documentation
> >
> > Zhaolei (2):
> > ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_event
> > ftrace: clean up of using ftrace_event_enable_disable()
> >
> > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 --------
> > include/trace/ftrace.h | 2 +-
> > kernel/trace/Kconfig | 9 +++++-
> > kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++++
> > kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 42 +++++++++++++---------------------
> > kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 25 +++++++++++++++-----
> > kernel/trace/trace_output.h | 2 +
> > 7 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> >



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