linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/function-return-tracer: Call prepare_ftrace

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811121911340.30248@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:11:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/function-return-tracer: Call prepare_ftrace_return
 by registers


> 
> Hmm... The whole thing is splitted in two levels: the infrastructure
> to trace on call and return (and call
> a return handler) and the higher level tracer.
> The first could be called ftrace_exit because it is waht it does.
> And the second is much more about cost evaluation of functions and so
> could be named function_cost. Its
> functions and structures could have this in their name whereas the low
> level things could have ftrace_exit in
> their name.
> 
> What do you think?

Yeah, I like that.

Ingo, what's your thought on that?

-- Steve

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