linux-kernel - Re: Tracing configuration review

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinuHB9gPLBZs_QsHqOm6Y5nR91P_gFlVBXa-ilJ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 09:19:37 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>,
	Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@...mi.au.dk>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracing configuration review

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Frederic Weisbecker
<fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
>> # CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is not set (Kconfig says N if unsure)
>
> Deprecated. We have the kmem trace event that are a full replacement now.
> Pekka, Gabriel, can we remove it now?

I don't think ftrace supports boot-time tracing which kmemtrace did.
That said, I was probably the only one actually using the feature so
maybe we can just nuke kmemtrace at this point...
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