linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/15] tools/events: Add files to create libtraceevent.a

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Message-ID: <4F7E37D4.1050205@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:24:52 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/15] tools/events: Add files to create libtraceevent.a

On 4/5/12 6:18 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:08 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>
>>
>> I found that this lib needs to be an .so to work with trace-cmd's plugins.
>>
>
> And not just trace-cmd. I want to get those plugins to also work with
> perf. That is, have the kvm plugin (et. al.) make it so that perf does
> not need to rely only on the TP_printk() in the format file.
>
> But that said, it is trivial to make this into a .so. Just having a
> separate library would be a huge first step.

Right, I meant to get trace-cmd's plugins to work with perf.

I have a patch that applies to your set from last August for that 
purpose; it applies to Frederic's version just working on a header file 
name collision. I've been using the plugins-modified perf specifically 
for kvm events.

David
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