linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix trace_print

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:57:01 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix trace_print_seq()

>> There have a example:
>> after reboot:
>> # echo kmemtrace > current_tracer
>> # echo 0 > options/kmem_minimalistic
>> # cat trace
>> # tracer: kmemtrace
>> #
>> #
>> Nothing is exported, because the first byte of trace_seq->buffer[ ]
>> is KMEMTRACE_USER_ALLOC.
>> ( the value of KMEMTRACE_USER_ALLOC is zero, seeing
>>   kmemtrace_print_alloc_user() in kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c)
>>
...
> Looks good, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> 
> But having a '\0' in a non binary trace looks weird. Why do
> we have such plain KMEMTRACE_USER_ALLOC whereas binary tracing
> is not set, as your example shows it?
> 

Because of this commit:

| commit 42af9054c0eeed09ec58d13ec8bf52d225ebcfcc
| Author: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
| Date:   Mon Mar 23 15:12:26 2009 +0200
|
|    kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI

I think we should change it to use trace_event->binary() interface for
binary trace.

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