linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM Coresight: Enhance ETM tracing control

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Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2013 09:07:03 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Adrien Vergé <adrienverge@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM Coresight: Enhance ETM tracing control

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:52:34AM -0500, Adrien Vergé wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First, please excuse me for these misformatted patches that my email
> client messed up. Next time I will use git send-email. The 3 patches
> can be found on
> http://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~averge?p=linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/etm_with_addr_and_pid
> 
> Greg: you're right, sysfs is a questionable place for tracing/debug
> code. Debugfs or /dev entries would be the right place.

Why would /dev be correct?

What's wrong with the existing tracing infrastructure that you need to
create a new one?

> Though, the only support for ETM in Linux is there, and currently very
> limited because tracing options such as address and pid are not
> configurable. The code I propose would make it usable, until someone
> with time (and more experience than me ;)) moves it out from sysfs.

Your pid implementation is broken, see my other email about that :(

And again, what's wrong with the existing tracing functionalty that is
processor agnostic?  Why can't we just delete this driver today and use
the existing trace code?

thanks,

greg k-h
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