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Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:59:43 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	edac-devel <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAS trace event proto

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:48:18AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 15:12 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > > Also, folding everything into just one string prevents (or make hard) the usage of
> > > the perf filters, for example, to filter only the errors at the memory controller 1.
> > 
> > Huh, because you can't grep through the trace anymore...?
> > 
> 
> I believe Mauro is talking about the tracing filters used by both perf
> and ftrace that lets you ignore trace events when the contents of the
> event does not match the filter. This is filtering out events before
> they go to the buffer.

Oh ok, in that case we could filter the errors - if needed - before they
get even reported. I say "if needed" because normally we want to collect
all hw errors in the trace, IMHO.

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