linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Tracing/fastboot: Enable boot tracing only during initcalls

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:02:18 +0200
From:	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Tracing/fastboot: Enable boot tracing only during initcalls

2008/10/10 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> We used to disable the initcall tracing at a specified time (IE: end
>> of builtin initcalls). But we don\'t need it anymore. It will be
>> stopped when initcalls are finished. However we want two things:
>>
>> _Start this tracing only after pre-smp initcalls are finished. _Since
>> we are planning to trace sched_switches at the same time, we want to
>> enable them only during the initcall execution. For this purpose, this
>> patch introduce two functions to enable/disable the sched_switch
>> tracing during boot.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
>
> applied to tip/tracing/fastboot, thanks Frederic!
>
>        Ingo
>

Oops, sorry Ingo there are some backslashes that taint this patch.
I will resend a V2....
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