linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] iommu/vt-d: Add trace events for domain map/unmap

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Message-ID: <20190610160838.GY28796@char.us.oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:08:38 -0400
From:   Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, ashok.raj@...el.com,
        jacob.jun.pan@...el.com, alan.cox@...el.com, kevin.tian@...el.com,
        mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        pengfei.xu@...el.com, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] iommu/vt-d: Add trace events for domain map/unmap

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 09:16:18AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> This adds trace support for the Intel IOMMU driver. It
> also declares some events which could be used to trace
> the events when an IOVA is being mapped or unmapped in
> a domain.

Is that even needed considering SWIOTLB also has tracing events?