linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin

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Message-ID: <20100526101617.GA14286@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 06:16:17 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 05:22:17PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
> ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
> and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

While you're at it also care to remove the blk ftrace plugin?  We have
the old blktrace ioctl interface and the trace events as better
alternatives.

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