linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] perf: Make perf aware of tracefs

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:45:50 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] perf: Make perf aware of tracefs

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:16:25 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 02:35:07PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> >  }
> > @@ -325,12 +351,19 @@ const char *perf_debugfs_mount(const char *mountpoint)
> >  void perf_debugfs_set_path(const char *mntpt)
> >  {
> >  	snprintf(debugfs_mountpoint, strlen(debugfs_mountpoint), "%s", mntpt);
> > -	set_tracing_events_path(mntpt);
> > +	set_tracing_events_path("tracing/", mntpt);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static const char *find_tracefs(void)
> > +{
> > +	const char *path = __perf_tracefs_mount(NULL);
> > +
> > +	return path;
> 
> I guess you ommited the fprint(stderr... ) warning on purpose
> (like in find_debugfs), because the tracefs is not upstream yet, right?

Right, because I didn't want people complaining about using a new perf
with an old kernel, and suddenly get warnings.

> 
> maybe we want at least pr_debug warning here..
> anyway, other than that the patchset looks ok to me:

I was thinking that we could add one later, when tracefs is more common.

> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

Thanks!

Arnaldo, do you want to pick this up?

-- Steve
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