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

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:24:35 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	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 Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:08:56 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:56:10 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> 
wrote:
> > > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> > >
> > > This patch creates the event tracing infrastructure of ftrace.
> > > It will create the files:
> > >
> > >  /debug/tracing/available_events
> > >  /debug/tracing/set_event
> > >
> > > The available_events will list the trace points that have been
> > > registered with the event tracer.
> > >
> > > set_events will allow the user to enable or disable an event hook.
> > >
> > > example:
> > >
> > >  # echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/set_event
> > >
> > > Will enable the sched_wakeup event (if it is registered).
> > >
> > >  # echo "!sched_wakeup" >> /debug/tracing/set_event
> > >
> > > Will disable the sched_wakeup event (and only that event).
> >
> > Why not
> >
> > echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/set_event
> > echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/clear_event
>
> I'm trying to keep the number of files in /debug/tracing down.

Why? Andrew's proposal is much cleaner. (what is the !sched_wakeup
event? An event you get when the scheduler does not wake up a task? ;)


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