linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'

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Message-Id: <1290041086-sup-5766@au1.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:47:39 +1100
From:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'

Excerpts from Thomas Gleixner's message of Wed Nov 17 08:04:40 +1100 2010:
> We are pleased to announce a new tracing tool called 'trace'.

Cool!

> Build the -tip kernel and reboot into it to get the most out of the
> tool - but even on default kernels it will try to cope. Syscall events
> (CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y) is a must for most methods of analysis
> though. (with the above -tip tree you'll get it all configured by
> default)

OK, now I'll really have to find some time in the near future to go back
to the work I was doing on the ftrace syscalls + building on Jason's
ftrace compat syscall patches to make the most of this.

Cheers,
-Ian
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