linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ftrace: Add 'function-fork' trace option

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Message-ID: <20170328222102.5735a80f@grimm.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:21:02 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ftrace: Add 'function-fork' trace option

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:18:52 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:46:23 +0900
> Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > The function-fork option is same as event-fork that it tracks task
> > fork/exit and set the pid filter properly.  This can be useful if user
> > wants to trace selected tasks including their children only.  
> 
> Actually, I had every set, but it appears I stopped at this step. You
> just finished it ;-)
> 

It's good to know that if I ever did get hit by a bus, my unfinished
upstream work would actually get completed. :-)

-- Steve