Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:43:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] trace-cmd - command line reader for ftrace |
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Since using echo and cat can sometimes be annoying to set up the tracer, > I've been asked several times if I could come up with a tool to do it for > you. For the last few weeks I've been working on one. The most difficult > job was to parse out the "print_fmt" of the format files in the event. > > This code is somewhat a proof of concept and is in alpha form. Although it > is still very functional and useful. I can imagine that this could also be > sucked into Ingo Molnar's "perf" utility.
That would be the first thing to do. Please integrate it with perf so we have one "look into the kernel" tool instead of N different ones with separate command line syntax and output style.
Thanks,
tglx
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