linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip perf/probes 00/10] x86 insn decoder bugfixes and perf-probe syntax changes

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Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:26:33 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	systemtap <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
	DLE <dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip perf/probes 00/10] x86 insn decoder bugfixes and
	perf-probe syntax changes

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:16:25PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> What we want here is two fold:
>>>
>>>    - enable kprobes event support when perf events is enabled and kprobes
>>>      is enabled. We dont want another config option for it.
>>
>> Sure, at least that combination should enable kprobe-tracer forcibly.
>
> Hmm, someone may not want to enables kprobe-tracer. Perhaps,
> "default y if (EVENT_PROFILE)" is enough, isn't it?
>


I guess it should be sufficient yeah. We want to strongly recommend
the kprobe events if we have enabled perf, but we don't want to force
it.

Also in this case we need a verbose runtime report of the lack of this
tracer in debugfs from perf probe if needed.

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