linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] trace-cmd - command line reader for ftrace

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:43:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>,
	Clark Williams <clark.williams@...il.com>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, srostedt@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] trace-cmd - command line reader for ftrace

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Since using echo and cat can sometimes be annoying to set up the tracer, 
> I've been asked several times if I could come up with a tool to do it for 
> you. For the last few weeks I've been working on one. The most difficult 
> job was to parse out the "print_fmt" of the format files in the event.
> 
> This code is somewhat a proof of concept and is in alpha form. Although it 
> is still very functional and useful. I can imagine that this could also be 
> sucked into Ingo Molnar's "perf" utility.

That would be the first thing to do. Please integrate it with perf so
we have one "look into the kernel" tool instead of N different ones
with separate command line syntax and output style.

Thanks,

	tglx
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