linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] sched: Add new tracepoints required for EAS testing

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Message-ID: <20190605061748.GA20661@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 23:17:48 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@...eaurora.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Uwe Kleine-Konig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] sched: Add new tracepoints required for EAS
 testing

> The following patches add the bare minimum tracepoints required to perform EAS
> testing in Lisa[1].

What is EAS?  Whhy is "Lisa" not part of the patch submission?
submission.

> It is done in this way because adding new TRACE_EVENTS() is no longer accepted
> AFAIU.

Huh?  We keep adding trace events all the time.  And they actually
are useful because they are testable.

This series on the other hand adds exports not used in tree, which is
a big no-go.