linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902250852280.12697@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:54:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure


On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Lai Jiangshan wrote:

> Steven Rostedt ??:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |   11 ++-
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig              |    9 ++
> >  kernel/trace/Makefile             |    1 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.c       |  280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.h       |   52 +++++++
> >  5 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_events.h
> > 
> 
> Modules can not use this infrastructure,
> will it be implemented in future?

"Give that man a cigar!"  ;-)  (old saying about someone that answers the 
                                game show question correctly).

I was waiting for this question to come up.  The answer is, "Yes", I have 
plans to add implementation to make it work with modules.

-- Steve

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