linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-return-tracer: set a more human readable output

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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:09:30 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-return-tracer: set a more human readable
 output


On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:

> 2008/11/26 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>:
> > 1) Compression of non-nested calls into a single line.
> >
> >   Implementing this probably necessiates some trickery with the
> >   ring-buffer: we'd have to look at the next entry as well and see
> >   whether it closes the function call.
> 
> 
> I wanted to do so. That's not so easy, I guess I will not only have to read
> the next entry. I'll have to modify it to avoid the next entry to
> print a closing brace.

You could run a ring_buffer_read(iter->buffer_iter[iter->cpu], NULL)
and that will consume the next entry, so it will not print.

> But I don't think that would be a problem.
> Note with this method that if there is a context switch or an
> interrupt between the entry and
> the return of a leaf function, it will not anymore be considered as a non-nested
> function on its output.
> But the case would be rare enough, so I will apply this.

Yeah, we would not care about that case. In fact it may be best to keep it 
as is.

-- Steve

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