linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries

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Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:30:08 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] tracing: Add trace_total_entries() /
 trace_total_entries_cpu()

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 05:18:46PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:47:40 -0700
> Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
> 
> > These two new exported functions will be used in a future patch by
> > kdb_ftdump() to quickly skip all but the last few trace entries.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> 
> Actually, I guess only this email needs the ack from Daniel.

I skipped this patch in v4 since I misunderstood and thought it was just
tweaking an existing trace API (which wouldn't really need an ack from
me).

I did offer a bit of feedback after reading it but TBH even if the
feedback is rejected I'm ok to ack:
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.