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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'
On 11/16/2010 02:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>
>> Would you be interested in helping out with (and testing) such a more generic
>> approach?
>
> how about having perf-record open a named pipe and rewriting everything
> that comes in through that as an event and storing it in the buffer?

When I'm tracing an app or test-case, I want to be able to quickly add
and change strings. I like the trace_printk sort of access as it avoids
having to do a bunch of string formatting (sprintf()) calls in the test app.

--
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel


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