linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer dynamically

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Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:23:27 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer
	dynamically

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:15:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Is this allocating a buffer for every event? Why not just have one? All
> events can share the same buffer. It's only a temp buffer, and can only
> be used by one event at a time per cpu.
> 
> -- Steve
> 


Oh you're right. That was so obvious though...

The v2 is coming soon.

Thanks.

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