linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf: probe: factor out the ftrace README scanning

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:45:21 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf: probe: factor out the ftrace README
 scanning


FYI,

When creating new patch series, please start a new thread, and don't
post a patch as a reply to another patch. It gets easily lost that way.

-- Steve


On Thu,  2 Mar 2017 23:25:05 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Simplify and separate out the ftrace README scanning logic into a
> separate helper. This is used subsequently to scan for all patterns of
> interest and to cache the result.
> 
> Since we are only interested in availability of probe argument type x,
> we will only scan for that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---