linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6] Unified trace buffer

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:46:23 -0700
From:	"Martin Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Mathieu Desnoyers" <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	"David Wilder" <dwilder@...ibm.com>, hch@....de,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Masami Hiramatsu" <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Unified trace buffer

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:05 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> +struct buffer_page {
>> +     u64             time_stamp;
>> +     unsigned char   body[];
>> +};
>> +
>> +#define BUF_PAGE_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(u64))
>
> Since you're already using the page frame, you can stick this per page
> timestamp in there as well, and get the full page for data.
>
> You can either use a struct page overlay like slob does, or add a u64 in
> the union that contains struct {private, mapping}.

What did you guys think of Mathieu's idea of sticking the buffer length
in the header here, rather than using padding events? Seemed cleaner
to me.
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