linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing script for page-allocator-related ftrace events

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Message-ID: <20090805091635.GA16718@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:16:35 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, lwoodman@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing
	script for page-allocator-related ftrace events


* Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:

> > I.e. we'd have your patch in the end, but also with some 
> > feel-good thoughts made about it on a higher level, so that we 
> > can be reasonably sure that we have a meaningful set of 
> > tracepoints.
> 
> Ok, I think I could put together such a description for the page 
> allocator tracepoints using the leader and your mail as starting 
> points. I reckon the best place for the end result would be 
> Documentation/vm/tracepoints.txt

The canonical place for that info is Documentation/trace/ - we 
already have a collection of similar bits there:

 events.txt  kmemtrace.txt  power.txt               tracepoints.txt
 ftrace.txt  mmiotrace.txt  ring-buffer-design.txt

	Ingo
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