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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:46 +0200 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> CC: kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com> Subject: Re: kvmmmu tracing On 11/23/2009 01:06 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > Commit f691fe1da7e2715137d21ae5a80bec64db4625db is really broken wrt. > the userspace interface for tracing because of the weird > KVM_MMU_PAGE_PRINTK macro. > > Can you explain what is wrong with it? > Maybe we should have a "unsafe for export" flag for events, if they do > strange things like that? > > As it stands, I can't use trace-cmd on an x86 machine that has kvm > enabled because it will try to read all the kvm stuff. Arguably, it > should only try to parse it when it needs it (i.e. not for me) but still > it's very inconvenient to export something to userspace that it cannot > possibly understand. > Is userspace reading mmutrace.h? When the structure attributes can be exported via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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