linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documention for trace records (trec).

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Date:	27 Mar 2007 17:19:02 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Wink Saville <wink@...ille.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documention for trace records (trec).

Wink Saville <wink@...ille.com> writes:

> Trec is a light weight tracing mechanism that places
> trace information into a buffer. The contents of the
> buffer is dumped when errors occurs or when enabled
> via SYSRQ commands.

relayfs was supposed to fill this purpose. Why do you want
another one?

It doesn't work for sysrq dumping on fatal errors, but in my 
experience on such cases custom tracing is best.

-Andi
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